Previously in Chapter 6:

"An unknown assailant?"

"Yeah I found this sword later that day, she's still alive but we don't know where she is, not even Dialga knows her whereabouts. I don't know why Dialga and the others were after her, but I guess maybe because she had an ability that no one else has."

Jasmine's eyes widened "No...This can't be, what was it called?"

"...The Dimensional Scream."

Chapter 7

Treeshroud's Time gear

'The Dimensional Scream...'

"Well that's about all I can tell you about this sword, unfortunately that's all I ever learned about it."

"The Dimensional Scream, huh?" Grovyle turned to look at Jasmine. "Hey Jasmine isn't that what you said you have?"

Jasmine was too lost in her own thoughts that she didn't hear a word he said.
'I guess it's exactly like what Dialga told me then.' She thought to herself, grimacing slightly in surprise, yet she was a little happy that she wasn't the only one with this power.

"Did Dialga already tell you about our mom's special ability, Jasmine?"

"Oh...Yeah he did. Walter thanks for telling me more about our mother, I know it's been awhile now since she disappeared from us..."

Walter smiled and shrugged. "Well I had to tell you that eventually right?"

Grovyle stood up from the ground. "Sigh...Alright you guys I think we should get moving now. Even though we put a couple of miles between us and the Temporal Tower I won't feel safe until we are at least past the Hidden Land."

"Yeah you're right we should get moving now, didn't realize how long we stayed here. Grovyle, do you plan on staying with us?"

"I'll be on my way once we get far enough from the tower…"

Walter stood up.

"Come on Jasmine it's time to go."

'Man should I tell him?'

"Come on! What's the hold up? We have to go, who knows if the Sableye are coming after us or not."

"Wait a minute!" Her sudden outburst seemed to take both Walter and Grovyle by surprise.

"Huh? What's wrong now?"

Now that all the attention was on her, Jasmine stood up. "Walter I need to talk to you about something."

"Is it important? Can it at least wait till we get home?" Walter had pretty much enough of that place as well; Grovyle had a point when he stated that the Sableye might still be after them.

"Yes it's important, and no I have to tell you this now."

Walter sighed as he and Grovyle irritatingly walked back into the clearing their heads hanging low, as they sat down again. "Alright but can we make this quick?"

"Walter? I really don't know how to put this but...Haven't you ever wondered why Dialga sent Dusknoir to capture me?"

Walter slapped his forehead; he had completely forgotten to get the details on that, after all the commotion they had he was more or less focusing on staying alive. "Err...I guess after all the excitement I forgot to ask you about that! Let's leave this place though, can you explain on the way?"

"Alright but it's a long story."

XxX Ten minutes later XxX

"WHAT? YOU HAVE THE DIMENSIONAL SCREAM?" Walter bellowed in shock, his voice echoing in the large corridor they were walking through, causing the bird pokemon resting in the nearby trees to take flight. Walter did have a tendency to be overly dramatic.

This caused Jasmine and Grovyle to stop in their tracks and look at each other. "Well he took it pretty well..."

"W-Why didn't you tell me about this in the beginning?"
Jasmine took a step back and shrugged. "Well I didn't know how you would take it." It was obviously the thing to do; she didn't know how he would take it, for all she knew he could've had a heart attack from the shock of the news.

Walter's eyes were still big, as he tried to process the things Jasmine had just said. "I can't believe this that means you've inherited this trait from our mother."

"Yeah...That's exactly what Dialga told me." She did recall him telling her that and nearly ripping her throat out because of it.

"This all makes sense now."

"What?" His statement caught her by surprise, as she narrowed her eyebrows.

"Why Dusknoir was after you and why Dialga wanted to see you. I knew it had to have been some reason why Dialga wanted to see you, usually he doesn't make requests like that to meet people, especially humans."

Jasmine's sweat dropped. "I can believe that." She had to admit he seemed like he hadn't had a civilized conversation in a long time.

"What was your vision about?"

"Well...

-Female voice: "W-wow! What is that?"

Male voice: "I-I can't believe this! That's a Time Gear!"-

There were two voices one was male and one was female. I couldn't really determine who the male voice was...But the female's voice sounded a little like my own." She thought the other voice seemed a little familiar too but dismissed the thought and concentrated on the one that sounded like her own.

"What were they saying?"

"They were talking about a Time Gear, they sounded really taken aback by whatever it was they were witnessing."

Walter suddenly recalled something and stood up in excitement. "You experienced this in the Treeshroud forest, right?"

"Yeah when I was on my way to the Temporal Tower I got attacked when it happened."

"I think we should go there to investigate this."

"You want to investigate?" Her eyes widened with surprise, she didn't really want to go back to that place after what had happened to her in her last visit.

"Yeah..." Walter looked over at Grovyle. "Grovyle, do you mind if we take a little detour?"

Grovyle shrugged, it didn't really matter to him what they'd do and he just wanted to get out of there. He returned Walter's gaze with a satisfied smirk, this whole talk of time gears seemed interesting to him anyway.
"It's not really a detour we have to go through the forest anyway so okay I'm kind of curious myself, let's go."

XxX Treeshroud Forest XxX
XxX Thirty minutes later XxX

"I think it was around here somewhere." Jasmine said as she led Walter and Grovyle into a small clearing.

"OK so where did you say you had it?"

Jasmine walked further into the clearing, trying to find the exact spot she had been backed into by that raging pokemon. "The wall that I ran into should be...Right around here..."

"Gasp!"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Look!"

"W-Wow...That wall is completely covered in ice!" Walter was right, Jasmine hadn't really noticed it before but the entire wall was completely encased in ice, which was weird because there wasn't any snow around anywhere, it wasn't even cold.

Grovyle ran up too it and examined it. "I've never seen this before, and I come through this forest all the time...You mean you ran into this thing before?"

Jasmine walked up to it to get a closer look, she was happy that she found the right spot. "Yeah I did, but I could have sworn that the wall I hit was warm."

"Warm? Doesn't look that way to me, I mean it is ice, how could it be warm?" Walter furrowed his eyebrows in uncertainty.

'Hmm...' Jasmine touched the wall. "...! I knew it! It is warm!" Walter walked up and stood beside her. "Tch, that's impossible its ice how can it, be warm?" He touched the frozen wall and to his surprise it was quite cold, he regretted ever touching it. "Yowch! It's freezing!" Walter screamed jumping back in pain, rubbing his hands together. "Err...Great my hands are numb now."

"Are you alright, Walter?" The ice on the surface didn't seem to bother jasmine at all; she was a little surprised to find Walter doubled over in pain.

"That's strange, Jasmine when you touched this wall it was warm?" Grovyle was surprised himself, though he didn't dare try to put his claw on the wall's hard and cold surface, especially seeing what happened to Walter.

"Yeah it is weird huh? Walter said it's cold to the touch."

"That's right! It's freezing cold!" Walter yelped.

Jasmine and Grovyle's sweat both dropped at his idiotic display of total pain and misery. "It was your idea to come here Walter." Jasmine finally looked away from him and rolled her eyes, he was so embarrassing sometimes.

Grovyle tried to change the subject. "Anyway you said you had a vision when you touched this wall?"

"Yes...Do you think I should try to touch it again and see if I see anything?"

"Yeah I think that's a good idea."

Jasmine walked up to the wall and touched it again. Tha-thump Tha-thump ("A heart beat?")

"Well did it work? See anything?"Grovyle asked anxiously.

"No...This is weird; I thought I heard a heartbeat." Jasmine stepped back, feeling a little nauseated as she did so, maybe moving back to fast wasn't a very good idea, she was starting to get a little dizzy.

"A heart beat? Then there must be something inside it." Walter pulled out a blast seed and put it on his arrow.

Jasmine's eyes widened. He wasn't seriously going to shoot it at the wall…Or was he? "You're going to blast through it, Walter?"

"Sure I am, just like when we escaped from the tower, it's better than just standing here right? Now stand back!" Walter unleashed his arrow, the arrow which was strengthened by the blast seed easily burrowed through the ice incrusted wall, leaving a small but lengthy hole. Walter was very pleased with his work and couldn't contain his excitement for exploring the cave anymore.

"Yes it worked! Come on guys!" Walter ran inside the cavern, almost too enthusiastically, Jasmine's and Grovyle's eyes were wide, they seemed totally stupefied. "Your brother certainly is uh...rather carefree isn't he?" Grovyle said, he seemed unimpressed by Walter's total carelessness, and was starting to doubt his trustworthiness.

"I guess that's one way to put it..." Jasmine wasn't too thrilled with following after him either.

"Hey guys come quick!"

"Walter?" Jasmine and Grovyle ran inside.

xxxxxxxx

"Gasp!""W-wow! What is that?"

"I-I can't believe this! That's a Time Gear!"

End Chapter